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What do you do when you face millions dollars in fines for committing a crime that didn't necessarily hurt anyone? (Though it does hurt an industry.) If you're Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, you make an art project that highlights how ridiculous those fines seem.

Sick of paying for Spotify? Hate how hard it is to use Apple Music? Missing Grooveshark every day? Then you're going to love what renegade developer and lover of beer Andrew Simpson has built. It's called Aurous, and it's basically Popcorn Time for music.

Love it or hate it — but you probably love it — Popcorn Time is a revolutionary app. And Federico Abad, the 29-year-old Buenos Aires-based developer who created it and just granted his first international interview about the "Netflix for torrents," seems like a pretty rad guy.

Who doesn't like blindingly fast internet? Movie studios who don't want people to watch their movies, apparently. A leaked survey obtained by TorrentFreak shows studios fretting over how Google Fibre's rapid advance — the company announced in February its plans to expand to 34 U.S. cities — could increase piracy, while completely ignoring how fast internet could be a boon for legal streaming.

Bootleg websites, usually tucked away in some shady digital corner filled with pornographic pop up ads and potentially malignant viruses, are a permanent fixture on the internet. Offering up tons of illegally free content, these sites' creators are the reason why publishing execs toss and turn in their sleep.

Sadly, people still pirate things. Of course they do. Because, despite 14 post-Napster years of piracy in the mainstream, it appears that studios still don't get it. Consider the $US100 Dark Knight Trilogy boxed set that came out just last week.

With the spring TV season drawing to a close (MAD MEN SEASON FINALE YOU GUYS!!), TorrentFreak has done the wonderful service of rounding up a top 10 list of the most torrented shows out there this time around. Can you guess number one? (You can definitely guess number one.)

Cory Doctorow has a piece in The Guardian explaining why it's awfully dumb for a theatre to confiscate mobile phones at a preview screening: Nobody's pirating movies with a mobile phone, and real leaks come from inside the industry.